Interview with Bill Binney: Mr. President—Russiagate is a Worse Hoax than You ThoughtIn this interview, former National Security Agency Technical Director Bill Binney demonstrates that the most important premise for Russiagate, that Russian military intelligence conducted an internet based hack of the DNC and then provided the purloined files to Wikileaks for publication, is a fraud. Binney is the former Technical Director of the NSA. If the Russians hacked the DNC, the NSA would be able to provide specific and detailed information tracing that attack as to times, dates, places, and that does not happen. How does Binney know this? He wrote or supervised the NSA programs and capabilities which do this. Binney has now conducted the only two independent forensic studies of the DNC files produced by Guccifer 2.0 and those published by Wikileaks. Both studies, based on file formats and internet transfer speeds, demonstrate that the DNC files were downloaded to a thumb drive or a storage device rather than transmitted over the internet in a Russian cyber attack. Binney’s findings dovetail Wikileaks account of how the files were delivered to them. According to former British Ambassador Craig Murray, he met with someone who was not a Russian state actor at American University in Washington, D.C. and received a thumb drive.In this Bill Binney also discusses his 32 year career at the NSA where he was known as this nation’s premier codebreaker. Binney invented the NSA program which automates collection of internet based data world-wide and invented a program, Thin Thread, which used targeted acquisition methods for analysis while protecting the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and the privacy rights of others. When it became apparent that the agency was engaged in bulk acquisition and massive constitutional violations following September 11, 2001, Binney left the NSA. After he left, Binney and his fellow whistleblowers proved that Binney’s program, Thin Thread, could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. When Binney and others blew the whistle on the NSA corruption and Constitutional violations by going through appropriate government channels, they were subjected to a years long FBI investigation based on bogus and fabricated information.
